Reconceptualizing English Education in a Multilingual Society

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Reconceptualizing English Education in Multilingual Philippines

      • Isabel Pefianco Martin

      Pages 3-11

3. English: Policy, Ideology, and Identity

   1. Front Matter

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   2. English in Multilingual Settings: Features, Roles and Implications

      • Andy Kirkpatrick

      Pages 15-28

   3. The Supremacy of English in Philippine Language Education Policy

      • Frances Paola G. Doplon

      Pages 29-46

   4. Critiquing Mother Tongue-Based Language-in-Education Policies: A Focus on the Philippines

      • Priscilla Angela T. Cruz, Ahmar Mahboob

      Pages 47-65

   5. Anguish as Mother Tongue: English in a Multilingual Context

      • Michelle G. Paterno

      Pages 67-83

   6. Teacher Ideology in English Language Education

      • Ruanni Tupas

      Pages 85-98

4. Teaching English, Teaching in English

   1. Front Matter

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   2. An Endocentric Approach to English Grammar Teaching

      • Alejandro S. Bernardo

      Pages 101-117

   3. Using Filipino in the English Classroom: Teaching with Resistance and Relevance

      • Devi Benedicte I. Paez

      Pages 119-135

   4. English in the Teaching of Mathematics: Policies, Realities, and Opportunities

      • Maria Luz Elena N. Canilao

      Pages 137-161

   5. The Technicist Framework and the Teaching of Speech Communication in the Philippines

      • Gene Segarra Navera

      Pages 163-176

   6. Migrant Workers, Language Learning, and Spaces of Globalization: The Case of Filipino Maritime Professionals

      • Paolo Niño Valdez, Neslie Carol Tan

      Pages 177-190

   7. The Social Dimension of English Language Testing in the Philippines

      • Isabel Pefianco Martin

      Pages 191-209

5. Synthesis

   1. Front Matter

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   2. English in Education in the Philippines: From Research to Policy

      • Mario Saraceni

      Pages 213-226

This book brings together chapters that describe, investigate, and analyze the place of English in education in multilingual Philippines. Unlike most studies on languages in education, which take a neutral, de-contextualized stance, this volume take a pluricentric view of the English language by positioning it in relation to its varieties, as well as to other languages in the country. Because of the changing realities of English in the Philippines, traditional assumptions about the language as monolithic and unchanging, as well as about how it should be taught and learned, need to be revisited and re-conceptualized.

• English in the Philippines
• English language education
• English language learning
• English language teaching
• Language planning and policy
• Multilingual education
• Philippine Language Education
• Second language acquisition
• Second language learning
• multilingual society

• Department of English, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines

  Isabel Pefianco Martin

Isabel Pefianco Martin is an associate professor and chair of the Department of English at the Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines. She is a leading figure in English-language studies in the country, having published in various internationally recognized publications on topics ranging from world Englishes, Philippine English, English-language education, English sociolinguistics and language policy to forensic linguistics, and language and law studies. She has held longtime leadership positions in the Linguistic Society of the Philippines (LSP) and now serves as an advisor on the LSP board. She has served and continues to serve in private and government institutions that are concerned with upgrading English-language education in the Philippines.

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